Where there is method in his madness or madness in his method, artistic director Antoni Cimolino has announced that his theme for the 2014 Stratford Festival season will be "Madness: Minds Pushed to the Edge".

Alisa Palmer has been appointed artistic director of the English Section of the National Theatre School of Canada.
In the announcement released today, NTS CEO Simon Brault, described the bilingual Palmer,

The Shaw Festival is already busy hawking its 51st season, in a modus operandi similar to that of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Big spenders who donate a lot of money to the festival get first pick of the tickets in November.